Buy the bullet: global defence spending

Buy the bullet: global defence spending

Governments the world over are beefing up defence spending—chief among them America’s and China’s. But some aggressive countries’ budgets are actually shrinking. May Day protests in France took a violent turn this year, and that complicates President Macron’s efforts to calm an already protest-prone populace. And, academics have been trying to determine which English-speaking country produces the most bullshit.

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The Weekend Intelligence: Baseball at the border

The Weekend Intelligence: Baseball at the border

Sarah Birke and Aryn Braun report frequently on tensions at the border between America and Mexico—even more so during a year in which both countries have elections. But rarely do you hear from the peo...

11 Mai 202450min

The Intelligence: The next stage of the tech wars

The Intelligence: The next stage of the tech wars

The battles for supremacy in chipmaking and green technology industries are raging on. Re-electing Donald Trump will likely make America’s approach even more anti-China, and a move towards autarky com...

10 Mai 202425min

The Intelligence: Singapore’s “4G” era

The Intelligence: Singapore’s “4G” era

Lawrence Wong will only be the city-state’s fourth leader since its independence. Our foreign editor asks him how he hopes to balance diplomatic relationships with America and China, maintain economic...

9 Mai 202424min

The Intelligence: Supercharging India’s economy

The Intelligence: Supercharging India’s economy

Narendra Modi’s reputation for prosperity is likely to propel him to a third term. But for India’s economic successes to last, the country needs a set of new reforms. Despite a host of sanctions from ...

8 Mai 202420min

The Intelligence: Truce talk

The Intelligence: Truce talk

The ceasefire deal, which Hamas has agreed to, prompted celebrations in Gaza. But Binyamin Netanyahu isn’t satisfied and the fighting continues. Video game adaptations are getting better, and becoming...

7 Mai 202420min

The Intelligence: Mandela’s vision, tested

The Intelligence: Mandela’s vision, tested

Thirty years of democracy have not led to uniform prosperity, and nearly everyone disagrees about the equality of opportunity. How will the disenchantment manifest at the polls? How two small Texas to...

6 Mai 202427min

The Intelligence: Our meeting with Macron

The Intelligence: Our meeting with Macron

France’s president is known for pronouncements of grand scope with one eye toward history. But when our journalists visited him at his residence his assessment of the state of the world was bleak—a da...

3 Mai 202429min

The Intelligence: The kids are alright, turns out

The Intelligence: The kids are alright, turns out

When you look around the world, and at a wider set of measures, Generation Z are far better off than the popular narrative would have you believe. We examine what India’s push to soup up its nukes mea...

2 Mai 202421min

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